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Monday, September 26, 2011

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room! This week Char is our host and she has chosen the theme of 'Chevrons' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration ...

... and Char asks that you create a card or project using BLUE, GREEN, ORANGE, CREAM AND BROWN WITH CHEVRONS! You can create your chevrons in a multitude of ways - patterned paper, cardstock, ribbon, trim, markers, crayons, colored pencils, beads, glitter ... just as long as we can see the chevron pattern in your design!

Note: Because we are sponsored weekly by wonderful businesses who have graciously donated products and in the interest of fairness to all participants, any entries that do not follow our simple challenge rules will remain in the gallery but will not be eligible for the weekly prizes. Thanks for your understanding and participation!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Anabelle O'Malley - Bits and Pieces! Anabelle is no stranger to The Shabby Tea Room Blog and we always find it such a delicious treat when she joins us with some shabby confections that she has created!!

And some more beautiful inspiration from our September Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ... Sherry Wright - Seasons of Change!

Do you want to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer with the Shabby Girls? It's as simple as participating in our weekly challenges and WOW-ing us with your projects! The Shabby Girls might be calling on YOU to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer!!!

JustRite is very excited to announce that they will be adding Clear Stamps to their product assortment! The JustRite October Release consists of 8 new Sets – 3 JustRite Original Sets, 2 Cling Sets and 3 Clear Sets. Starting on September 27th on the JustRite Blog they will begin debuting their October Release sets!!

As a special treat, JustRite is debuting two of their Autumn sets here today with The Shabby Tea Room readers!! For this week's Shabby Tea Room Challenge, JustRite will be giving the lucky winner 2 of their new sets from the October Release -- Autumn Labels Twenty Two – a JustRite Cling set with 6 images which retails for $19.95 and Autumn Words a Clear set with 40 stamps which retails for $14.95. WOW!! Now, get busy creating using our color inspiration palette and chevrons for YOUR chance to win this AWESOME prize package generously donated by JustRite Stamps!!!

Link your creations below by Sunday, October 2nd to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, October 3rd. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 3rd as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

A big, shabby THANK YOU to all of our friends for being so supportive of this wonderful, fun, shabby little challenge blog!!! Such an fun week here in the Tea Room for our 'Vintage White' challenge -- 91 STUNNINGcards and projects this week WOW - and the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every single one of them!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 1,601 FABULOUS FOLLOWERS for peeking and joining in on the weekly challenges! We {heart} you all in the Tea Room so very much!!!

Don't forget ... if you're sporting either a Shabby Tea Room blinkie, Tea Time Terrific Top Three badge, Winner badge or Guest Designer badge, contact me via e-mail to be added to the Shabby Girlfriends Page!

NEW FEATURE ... Top 10 Members {on our sidebar}! Click to sign in and have each of your visits to the Tea Room registered ... you just may find yourself spotlighted as one of the Top 10 Featured Favorites in the Tea Room :) It's so fun to see visiting numbers rising!

Please join me in thanking Pattie Goldman for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Sherry Wright for joining us as our September Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Ellephantastic, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge by providing a digital prize package for our lucky winner!

A QUICK REMINDER ... the Shabby Girls {heart} visiting your wonderful blogs filled with such inspiration, but with the increasing popularity of the Tea Room challenges, it is becoming more time consuming to get around to each and every applicant's submission in order to leave comments. Please consider turning WORD VERIFICATION OFF and leaving COMMENT MODERATION ON. Word Verification will NOT protect you from spam comments, and if you have Word Verification turned on, we may not be able to leave a comment on your blog. Thank you for your cooperation!

The Shabby Girls thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! The talent and inspiration continuously amazes us all ... it was a seriously difficult week to pick honorable mentions, tea time terrific top threes and the winner -- there were SO MANY gorgeous creations - WOW!!! I had to keep going back and checking the 'definition' of Vintage Style --Soft, distressed elements, vintage images and found elements such as buttons, crochet trim, flowers made out of old dress patterns. And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Vintage White' challenge:

Tammy Roberts #80! Tammy's use of found elements and vintage treasures in the design of her card is what captured my attention ... the lovely lace, vintage buttons, resin frame, adorable felt rose, pearls, seam binding, damask patterned paper, doilie and sewing elements all come together seamlessly to create this vintage stunner! Thanks, Tammy, for sharing your talents with us all in the Tea Room this week!

Congratulations to ALL! Tea Time Terrific Top Three and Winner, please grab your badges from our sidebar that you can proudly display on your blogs! Winner, please contact me via e-mail to claim your prize!

Please be sure to review the rules on our sidebar in order to be considered for the weekly top honors and prizes!

Monday, September 19, 2011

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room! We're super excited to have our two newest Shabby Girls, Cindy and Fran, officially beginning as Designers in the Tea Room this week -- so happy to have them on board in our little, crafty family! This week I am our host and I have chosen the theme of 'Vintage White' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration ...

... and I ask that you create a monochromatic card or project using WHITE OR CREAM, KRAFT, BROWN OR BLACK.

Note: Because we are sponsored weekly by wonderful businesses who have graciously donated products and in the interest of fairness to all participants, any entries that do not follow our simple challenge rules will remain in the gallery but will not be eligible for the weekly prizes. Thanks for your understanding and participation!

And some more beautiful inspiration from our September Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ... Sherry Wright - Seasons of Change!

Do you want to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer with the Shabby Girls? It's as simple as participating in our weekly challenges and WOW-ing us with your projects! The Shabby Girls might be calling on YOU to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer!!!

Now, hop on over to our Shabby Girl individual blogs to see lots more creative and beautiful inspiration!

The Shabby Girls are pleased to welcome our sponsor this week - Ellephantastic!

Hi I am Helen. I suffer with CFS/ME & found a few years ago I could no longer work due to my illness. To give myself something to do (when feeling well) I decided to go back to my roots....crafting!! I grew up drawing, knitting & 'Cutting & Sticking'Now I like to do all kinds of paper crafting, card making, altered art, knitting & sewing.I also design & draw my own digital art.My fun hobby has unintentionally grown into a li'l crafty business for me which I am loving.There is nothing I like better than to put a smile on someone's face because of my crafting :0) You can order & buy a lot of my work from my shop.

Link your creations below by Sunday, September 25th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, September 26th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 26th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

A big, shabby THANK YOU to all of our friends for being so supportive of this wonderful, fun, shabby little challenge blog!!! Such an fun week here in the Tea Room for our 'Pink Wedded Bliss' challenge -- 49 HANDSOMEcards and projects this week WOW - and the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every single one of them!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 1,579 FABULOUS FOLLOWERS for peeking and joining in on the weekly challenges! We {heart} you all in the Tea Room so very much!!!

Don't forget ... if you're sporting either a Shabby Tea Room blinkie, Tea Time Terrific Top Three badge, Winner badge or Guest Designer badge, contact me via e-mail to be added to the Shabby Girlfriends Page!

NEW FEATURE ... Top 10 Members {on our sidebar}! Click to sign in and have each of your visits to the Tea Room registered ... you just may find yourself spotlighted as one of the Top 10 Featured Favorites in the Tea Room :) It's so fun to see visiting numbers rising!

Please join me in thanking Chelsea Le for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Sherry Wright for joining us as our September Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Heart Song Designs, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge by providing a digital prize package for our lucky winner!

A QUICK REMINDER ... the Shabby Girls {heart} visiting your wonderful blogs filled with such inspiration, but with the increasing popularity of the Tea Room challenges, it is becoming more time consuming to get around to each and every applicant's submission in order to leave comments. Please consider turning WORD VERIFICATION OFF and leaving COMMENT MODERATION ON. Word Verification will NOT protect you from spam comments, and if you have Word Verification turned on, we may not be able to leave a comment on your blog. Thank you for your cooperation!

The Shabby Girls thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! The talent and inspiration continuously amazes us all!!! And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Boys Will Be Boys' challenge:

Ellen #39! WOWZERS ... would you take a look at this handsome masculine card with all that gorgeous and intricate quilling! I adore quilling and simply fell in love with the sweet duck and cat tails that Ellen created for her card -- great job!! Thanks for sharing your talents with us all in the Tea Room, Ellen :)

Congratulations to ALL! Tea Time Terrific Top Three and Winner, please grab your badges from our sidebar that you can proudly display on your blogs! Winner, please contact me via e-mail to claim your prize!

Please be sure to review the rules on our sidebar in order to be considered for the weekly top honors and prizes!

Monday, September 12, 2011

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room! This week Danielle is our host and she has chosen the theme of 'Boys Will Be Boys' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration ...

... and Danielle asks that you create a card or project with a MASCULINE THEME AND USE THE COLORS FROM THE INSPIRATION PICTURE.

Note: Because we are sponsored weekly by wonderful businesses who have graciously donated products and in the interest of fairness to all participants, any entries that do not follow our simple challenge rules will remain in the gallery but will not be eligible for the weekly prizes. Thanks for your understanding and participation!

And some more beautiful inspiration from our September Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ... Sherry Wright - Seasons of Change!

Do you want to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer with the Shabby Girls? It's as simple as participating in our weekly challenges and WOW-ing us with your projects! The Shabby Girls might be calling on YOU to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer!!!

And now for some more GOR-JUS inspiration from the Shabby Girls ...

... this week is Pattie and Danielle's final week as official Shabby Girls. We wish them well and hope that we see them back here in the Tea Room often to participate in our weekly challenges! Thank you, girls, from all of us for all of your creative inspiration you have given us during your time as Shabby Girls!

Heart Song Designs offers hand drawn digital stamp images perfect for all your papercrafting needs. We offer a variety of digis from elegant to super cute. Come visit us at http://heartsongdesigns.blogspot.com and find digis that make your heart sing.

Link your creations below by Sunday, September 18th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, September 19th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 19th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!

First, before I announce the newest Shabby Girls who will be joining our little family next week, I must offer a heartfelt thank you to the designers that applied for this recent design team call. We received nearly 40 outstanding creations for application to the DT which made the task of choosing {only two} very difficult. I wish I could have picked them all, but unfortunately I had to narrow the field down to the two very 'best'!

I would like to showcase the TOP THREE runners up here so you can see their lovely work! All three of these designers have been invited to join the Shabby Girls as Guest Designers in up-coming challenges very soon, and I'm happy to report that all three of these talented ladies accepted the invitation! How lucky we'll be to be inspired by their work right here in our Shabby little Tea Room!

Gorgeous and inspiring work ... right??!!?? Simply beautiful! Watch for these girlies to join the Shabby Girls in November ... can't wait!!!

So, onto the BIG announcement that you all have been waiting for! First, let me say, that the two newest Shabby Girl designers are no strangers to the Tea Room challenges! You have seen these ladies' beautiful work week in and week out in the past, and both girls have earned numerous Tea Time Top Three Honors as well as Winner spots in the past!!

Here is the photo inspiration the designers were asked to create with:

And, the Design Team Call challenge was to create a card or project using a pastel color palette of baby blue, soft pink and cornflower yellow with a Tea Theme.

DRUM ROLL PLEASE ... I am tickled pink to introduce you all to our new Shabby Girls:

We were absolutely blown away by both of these designer's takes on the inspiration photo for the DT Call challenge and amazed at how they nailed both the color palette and overall theme! Just STUNNING! Did you see the matching flag Cindy created for her sweet tea pot just like the inspiration photo? Did you see all those beautiful blooms that Fran included in the three gorgeous projects she created? Amazing work!!

Cindy and Fran will be 'officially' joining the Shabby Girls next week for the Week #80 Challenge, but in the meantime, please pop on over to their blogs to say 'hi'!

Again, thank you to everyone who applied for the team! We really do appreciate all your time and efforts! We'll be hosting our next call in March 2012 ... stay tuned!

A big, shabby THANK YOU to all of our friends for being so supportive of this wonderful, fun, shabby little challenge blog!!! Such an fun week here in the Tea Room for our 'Pink Wedded Bliss' challenge -- 64 LOVELYcards and projects this week WOW - and the Shabby Girls enjoyed peeking at each and every single one of them!! We also would like to recognize and thank our 1,571 FABULOUS FOLLOWERS for peeking and joining in on the weekly challenges! We {heart} you all in the Tea Room so very much!!!

Don't forget ... if you're sporting either a Shabby Tea Room blinkie, Tea Time Terrific Top Three badge, Winner badge or Guest Designer badge, contact me via e-mail to be added to the Shabby Girlfriends Page!

NEW FEATURE ... Top 10 Members {on our sidebar}! Click to sign in and have each of your visits to the Tea Room registered ... you just may find yourself spotlighted as one of the Top 10 Featured Favorites in the Tea Room :) It's so fun to see visiting numbers rising!

Please join me in thanking Jo Kill for joining us in the Tea Room last week as our Guest Designer and thank you also to Sherry Wright for joining us as our September Month-Long Special Guest Designer!

A very special thank you to our sponsor last week, Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps, for sponsoring the Tea Room challenge by providing a digital prize package for our lucky winner!

A QUICK REMINDER ... the Shabby Girls {heart} visiting your wonderful blogs filled with such inspiration, but with the increasing popularity of the Tea Room challenges, it is becoming more time consuming to get around to each and every applicant's submission in order to leave comments. Please consider turning WORD VERIFICATION OFF and leaving COMMENT MODERATION ON. Word Verification will NOT protect you from spam comments, and if you have Word Verification turned on, we may not be able to leave a comment on your blog. Thank you for your cooperation!

The Shabby Girls thank you ALL for sharing your special paper crafting talents with us here in the Tea Room! The talent and inspiration continuously amazes us all!!! And now, without further ado, here are the creations that caught my eye this week for capturing the essence of the 'Pink Wedded Bliss' challenge:

Lori U. #8! Oh my shabby goodness ... pure bliss! I love everything about this sweet design -- from the Webster's Pages patterned paper and pretty little doilie, to all those beautiful blooms and leave and the sweet pearls and pink satin bow ... {swoon}!!! Thanks, Lori, for sharing your talents with us all in the Tea Room last week!!

Congratulations to ALL! Tea Time Terrific Top Three and Winner, please grab your badges from our sidebar that you can proudly display on your blogs! Winner, please contact me via e-mail to claim your prize!

Please be sure to review the rules on our sidebar in order to be considered for the weekly top honors and prizes!

Monday, September 5, 2011

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room! This week I am your host and I've chosen the theme of 'Pink Wedded Bliss' along with these fun photos for inspiration ...

... and I ask that you create a card or project with a wedding, anniversary or celebration theme and use PINK, BLACK AND ANY NEUTRALS (white, cream, kraft).

Note: Because we are sponsored weekly by wonderful businesses who have graciously donated products and in the interest of fairness to all participants, any entries that do not follow our simple challenge rules will remain in the gallery but will not be eligible for the weekly prizes. Thanks for your understanding and participation!

I am pleased to introduce you all to this week's Guest Designer, Jo Kill - We Don't Do Duvets! Jo earned this Guest Designer spot for her win during Week #69 - 'Happy 4th of July'!

And I'm happy to introduce you all to our September Special MONTH-LONG Guest Designer ... please welcome Sherry Wright - Seasons of Change!

Do you want to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer with the Shabby Girls? It's as simple as participating in our weekly challenges and WOW-ing us with your projects! The Shabby Girls might be calling on YOU to be the next Month-Long Guest Designer!!!

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers,designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to offer the winner of this challenge 5 digital stamps of their choice.

Link your creations below by Sunday, September 11th to play along. Winner and Tea Time Terrific Top Three will be announced Monday, September 12th. We will have an all-new challenge for you to play along with on the 12th as well, so please come back and visit with us again for another chance to win!